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Born March 2, 1905 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died January 22, 1964 (aged 58) • Fort-de-France • Martinique
Notable Works “The Cradle Will Rock”
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Marvin Hamlisch seated at a grand piano, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, with orchestral instruments and music stands visible in the background.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
Leonard Bernstein, wearing a dark suit and red pocket square, conducts with his right arm raised, baton in hand, in front of an orchestra in 1988.
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Randy Newman in a suit holding his Academy Award Oscar and raising his fist in celebration, standing in front of a gold Oscar statue.
Randy Newman
American musician
Herbie Hancock smiling and wearing glasses, a black suit, and a red tie at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Herbie Hancock
American musician
King of ragtime
Scott Joplin
American composer and musician
André Previn.
André Previn
American composer and musician
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Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American composer and pianist
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Burt Bacharach
American songwriter and pianist
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Abdullah Ibrahim
Abdullah Ibrahim
South African musician and composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer